On this day's visit I left my Father a Thank You message- On sticky note paper, of course. I visit my parents' graves when in their town. Inside the door was a sticky note my Father left with precise measurement & triangulation details of where the septic tank lid was located. Months later, when prepping the house for sale, I removed the cover of the circuit breaker panel to do some repair work. I could not find it, The nephew who was renting my Dad's house said "You will know it when you find it." I asked how? He said "There will be a sticky note on it!" Once, in mid winter, I was losing my mind looking for the septic tank lid at my Dad's house. Each was precisely written, dated, time stamped & detailed (My Dad was an engineer- A German one at that, so everything was quite precise & detailed.) all over every kitchen cupboard, bathroom mirror, car dashboard, desk, dresser, dishwasher- Everywhere! They would be 3 or 4 deep. When he got older & forgetful, my Dad used to have paper sticky notes for appointments, grocery shopping, etc.
The older I get- The more notes I leave myself. PS: Now that I've spent some time with Stickies, I see that they could come in handy for forgetful people like me! Thank You and Biopunk for helping get this fixed up. Interestingly, on the administrator account, where Stickies is & was working, "Everyone" has No Access. I guess I am half blind because Everyone is on all the various files I looked at. I never noticed an Everyone on any file's Command-I before, so I looked around both my wife's and my computer. I tried, but could not get him/her/them off the access list. Now Stickies are staying stuck & new notes are saved. Next, I changed "Everyone"'s access to "Read-Write" on both the Plist & Stickies Database. On both, where the Sharing & Permissions access list is, there was an entry called "Everyone". So, I used Command-I to bring up the information for Stickies Database and the file. On the other user profile, the steps worked after logging out & in, but not after a re-start. Several log-out and log-in & restarts and it is still A-OK On one of the two problem user profiles your suggestion worked great. (The administrator account Stickies was working fine) I followed your steps on each of the two profiles that had problems. Stickies are now staying stuck & new sticky notes are saved.
It will be missed, if only as a reminder of how far desktop software design has come in the last 15 years.Thank You Slydude for taking the time to reply & suggest. There’s also an App Store section for Notification Center widgets in the event you want a custom one for a particular app like AirMail, Fantastical, or Todoist.īut as far as software history goes, the Dashboard was a memorable feature that set OS X apart during the truly ascendant and transformative years of post-iPod Apple. Apple has made many of the same widgets available as part of the macOS Notification Center for years, accessible through the icon in the upper righthand corner of the screen, as well as through a hotkey or trackpad gesture on Apple laptops. That said, it’s unlikely Mac users have been making use of Dashboard in meaningful numbers. The Launchpad overlay also shows the Dashboard app icon as a question mark, the same as with the broken up and effectively killed off iTunes. Appleosophy tried to disable and enable the Dashboard via Terminal only for the system to show it as missing even after a forced reboot. Now, in macOS Catalina, it appears Dashboard is going away for good. With OS X 10.10 Yosemite, Apple disabled the application by default, but still allowed users to access it either as a hotkey overlay or its own separate space within Mission Control. Since 2011, Dashboard has been accessible in various forms, but it’s had none of its widget design or UI updated, making it a bit of an anachronism existing behind the scenes on macOS. With Dashboard removed in macOS Catalina, your Sticky Notes have moved to the Stickies app! /dMj6hBCWoG- Steve Troughton-Smith June 4, 2019